RE: The Phalons (But with serious on topic questions stuck on the bottom)

G'day guys

>(BTW, anyonewho gets worried by "symbolism" of that sort should NEVER,
EVER
>even LOOK at the old GW Tyranid stuff (especially the doors in the
Space
>Hulk supplements), or the Kryomek, or anything at all by H.R.
Giger.......

On that theme... My husband played GW games back when there was only 1
book
(Yes he's been playing for quite a while) and he just wanted to know if
any
of you guys had ever seen the "Dictator" (probably more appropriately
called the DICKtator) which was a ship with 2 big arms with claws which
used to grab an enemy ship before using a huge drill to breech the hull
before disgorging lots of small boarding parties... it was one of the
funniest gaming things you can imagine he reckons. Its wonder it ever
made
it past the sensors out here - they banned the first 2 GW orc gargants
(which had a large cannon or gnashing set of jaws between their "legs").

Now in a vain attempt to bring these back on topic. After months of near
misses I FINALLY got to play my first ever game of FT last night. Very
nice. I got flattened (probably not helped by the fact my exceptional
dicing skills saw 2 ships disappear in power core explosions), but it
was
superb fun. I think I even managed to get the hang of how to use vector
movement and still go in the direction intended (this after I flew two
ships into a gas giant and one guy went beetling past the enemy line of
battle at high speed before realising that maybe he should slow down and
come back - unfortunately by the time he got back it was only him left
against the bad guys). Terrific. Just some questions for you.

1) The reroll 6s just continues on until you stop rolling 6s right? (I
think someone else asked this already, but I couldn't remember for sure,
sorry.) That's the way I interpreted the rule, but just double checking
after my arsey opponent rolled 8 6s on the trot (Yep that was one of my
ships that suffered a power core explosion - there wasn't an untouched
system left!)

2) When a ship strikes its colours does the other side have to do
anything
to it (i.e. put on a boarding party or something) or does it just
quietly
slink out of the way?

Cheers

Beth 

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